Nokia E6-00 leaked in photos, filmed [video]

Nokia’s unannounced E6-00, a new, candybar-style smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard, has been leaked by a member of the NokiaTeco forums. The E6-00 reportedly sports a VGA resolution touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, a front-facing camera, and a version of the Symbian operating system that was specifically designed for the device’s 4:3 display aspect ratio. It doesn’t look like Nokia has strayed all that far from the E71 — which also is available in white and comes with a metal back cover — and looks like a pretty solid piece of hardware. In a world with smartphones packing qHD displays, we’re not too crazy about the VGA screen resolution, though, and we hope that particular spec is wrong. Hit the jump to view a blurry video of the E6-00 in action.

whoever took the vid can clearly handle a phone better than the confusing focus feature of a camera

http://ivankowalenko.com Ivan Kowalenko

Unless he’s using a fixed focus lens, like the kind featured on many cheap digital video cameras (like the ones sold by Cisco under the Flip brand, or Kodak’s offerings).

Ayrworkspainting

qHD in a 2.5-2.8” screen is ridiculous. VGA is quite high ppi for 2.5-2.8”

http://ivankowalenko.com Ivan Kowalenko

I agree with the point here. I think the 480×360 screen in my BlackBerry is plenty sharp. It’s certainly no Retina display, but at that size, I think it’s just fine. That doesn’t, however, mean I don’t wish it had a larger screen.

http://twitter.com/johnsies Johnson Tran

Does the “E” stand for Evanesence?

I actually think it looks pretty good. All it needs is the Nokia Pure font.

http://ivankowalenko.com Ivan Kowalenko

It’s likely just part of the Eseries, which is Nokia’s business phone series.

Anonymous

what’s the point of the 8 putton interface below. why not just have a touch screen and then a home button. What’s the point of a thumbpad and keyboard shortcuts. You may as well have a full fledged dockbar.

http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

Good point. Either the touch screen doesn’t have nearly the capabilities it should, or they’ve made the interface design cripplingly redundant. This falls under the “What Were They Thinking?” mantle.

Hi

BlackBerry Bold wanna be!

http://twitter.com/EricSeale Eric in Cupertino

This will sell well to old ladies in China.
I had the N80, N770, E51, E72, and N900
Love Nokia.

http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

I loved my N95, but the N97 was the final insult and drove me away from Nokia for good.

http://twitter.com/Veeoh Mark Thomas

Yeh N95 was great. Then I went and got all appley and never looked back. Nokia now just look so… dated? Can’t think of a better word.

Anonymous

DOA

Fry

lol did you guys not watch the video or did you not think it’s a big deal that Nokia is cooking up their first ever candybar qwerty with a TOUCHSCREEN?!

Anonymous

Ohhhhhh!!!! A Nokia Centro CDMA!!!

http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

Seriously Nokia? A reshuffling of the features of the E71 ?? I guess they spent all their time thinking about that new font for the company logo rather than actually designing phones, huh? That’s OK. I’m sure their customers will be content to wait until they transition to WP7.

Anonymous

Why do you want more than vga on a screen that small?

QNX Please

Fugly, if someone wants a candybar qwerty phone, why would they get this Nokia over a Blackberry?

http://ivankowalenko.com Ivan Kowalenko

Because BlackBerry OS is frighteningly slow, painfully fragile, and simply doesn’t have the Apps it needs. I’m not saying that Symbian has the greatest App market either, but I’ve seen far more interesting apps available for Symbian than I have for BlackBerry OS.

For example: I still haven’t found a proper Shoutcast player for BBOS, and I’ve been looking for two years (meanwhile, my N73, launched in 2006, has that feature baked in). I’ve found a half-decent photo editor for BlackBerry OS 5, and it cost me 99¢. I’m not complaining about the price, but Symbian S60v3 had that, again, built in to the OS. It runs faster (cropping and adjusting brightness/contrast do not take the, and I’m not exaggerating, minutes it takes to perform on the BlackBerry), has more capabilities (clip-art, defining resolution, borders, etc.), and I didn’t have to go hunting around for it. S60v3 even had a built in entertaining little video editor called Muvee. The N73 shot 352×288 MPEG-4 video, and until my BlackBerry got OS 5 it maxed out at 176×128 3GPP/H.263 (now it does 320×240 3GPP/H.263). The Symbian browser also was Webkit based, something I still don’t have in BlackBerry OS 5, and it had support for RSS feeds (RIM launched their own RSS reader only a couple months ago).

For me, there’s one huge factor that would help this decision: The BlackBerry takes around eight (8) minutes to reboot. I’m going to bet that this phone can be restarted in less than 60 seconds. I’m also going to guess you can do it without having to tear the phone out of whatever case you’ve armored it with, unlock the back panel, and rip the battery out of it. The process also probably doesn’t eat a minimum of 10% of the battery power either.

There’s a lot of reasons to choose this over the BlackBerry, and this is coming from a guy who has used both.

Anonymous

Better built and unlimited data is $10. That’s why

Anonymous

Why did they add that stupid horrible song. Can’t wait to get this Phone

Anonymous

Better built and unlimited data is $10. That’s why

http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

Absolutely hideous. RIM seems to be the only company capable of making attractive phones in this form factor. Well, they used to anyway.

Exactly.

What, are you kidding?

Nokia has ALWAYS had better looking phones than RIM, and I use a Bold. Nokias designs are classic.

http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

Classic garbage

http://twitter.com/iCrizzo Christopher Rizzo

1 word = FAIL

rIM jOB

Sweet leak. RIM release the same phone 3 years ago. And it had secure email and an OS the US is familiar with. Way to keep innovating Nokia.

You are such a tool. 3 years ago RIM didn’t have shit, they still don’t have shit.

By the way, there is an ENTIRE WORLD outside of the US and they actually like Symbian. Some Americans are so dumb.

Anonymous

Well, here’s another proof as to why Nokia felt the need to ‘partner’ up with m’soft

http://www.facebook.com/satya.chowdary99 Satya Chowdary

looks as shabby as any other nokia querty device….

SugarBear

They still make these phones???

Anonymous

Oh Chrkess, this happens to be their new iPhone killer!

http://twitter.com/HelRayzer Raymond Helyar

this might be why Nokia isn’t doing well… unless your really going to push the envelope, don’t waste your time with certain form factors. As much as tech people hate RIM because of the limit in Apps, they have one thing that is certainly dominant and that is the qwerty form factor. Blackberrys while lacking in up to standards OS and UI, are still making great looking phones in this form.

CharlieBrown2108

I bought an E71 (unlocked) several years ago and it was the best overall phone I ever had, although I will say my current iphone 3gs has been very reliable and very easy to use. If Nokia had Steve Jobs or Bill Gates the world of technology would be quite different.

Anonymous

Yes, the world of technology would be quite different: We wouldn’t have had copy and paste, mms, multitasking, front facing cameras, GPUs, high quality cameras, high quality microphones, speakers, casings, unrestricted file access, removable storage, widgets, multiple home screens, ability to install apps from anywhere, updates from anywhere, free offline navigation, xenon flash, HD calling, USB-OTG and many more technologies that have come to be YEARS before Jobs and Gates companies have used them. Some of those things, Jobs and Gates companies still haven’t implemented.

Unlike most of you posting. My money goes where the abilities are and I can look past a name brand. You all have limited yourself to a mindset that causes you to miss out on the advances in technology. Everyones bias does nothing but limit your exposure to technology.

There is nothing wrong with linking your iphone, its realiability and ease of use. That is GREAT! What would be wrong is if I came in and bashed your iphone like it was pure junk and said stupid stuff like Apple should give up and that iOS is a dumbphone OS and other ignorant comments as if they were true. Why would I do that? How does that make me look? Like an idiot because none of that is true and if you like your iPhone, that is all that matters. I should have some hidden agenda to ruin the image of Apple or the iPhone in the hopes that people wont buy Apple producs and so forth.

None of these companies are paying you all to be negative and spread lies, the same way no one is paying me to be positive and spread the truth.

Why would you not want a device full of features? Because you heard someone say it was bad? Because you think it is cool to get on the bashwagon?

I, and other open minded individuals will continue to use devices that are capable of bringing the latest tech and meet our nees WITHOUT bashing other companies and their phones. If iOS has the abilities, it is for me, if Symbian^3, Android or whatever, I will buy it. You all act like you are getting kickbacks and that you are on a mission to slander.

I wouldn’t even ask you all to recommend a phone that I could buy after telling you what I need to use it for. You all would be so full of yourself that you would recommend what YOU think I should buy based upon YOUR likes. This phone fits perfectly for people who like that form factor but what the latest OS and gaming and HD camera and video and video chat but you all are to ignorant and childish to even be mature enough to not come off as biased fanboys with little knowledge of the subjet matter.

Really, so many ignorant comments.

Charliebrown2108, this isn’t directed at you, I just didn’t feel like responding to each post. Like our friend ctt1wbw below that refers to Symbian^3 as a dumbphone….and recommends Windows Phone 7….which is not as smart of a smartphone (lacking features) than Symbian^3. really ctt1wbw. Do most of you think about what you say before you type it? Do you consider that people with a brain will read it? Or do you think that all readers share your limited point of view?

If anyone doesn’t fit the descriptions above, then this post is not for you. If the shoe fits, wear it, and then examine yourself and see what it is that causes you to spread misinformation in confidence and be satisfied with being misinformed, to be so close minded, trend following and come off as a horrible representation of your real life personality. Or are you really that close minded in real life?

Anonymous

I loved my E71 and this looks like it’s pretty nice overall. All of you BB lovers need to get a grip. I bet Nokia will sell more of these than most Android handsets.

Anonymous

Hey Nokia, dumb phones went out several years ago. Just hurry up with the Windows Phone 7 stuff. Please.